“I am here to acknowledge & represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t lead on the evening news,” says Naomi Wadler, an 11-year-old from Alexandria, Va
She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are:
Where have you been all my life? they ask.
Where have I been all my life? she replies.
Margaret Atwood, from Good Bones and Simple Murders; “Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women,”
(via illuminosity)